Inside our Hive

The other day Daddy donned his bee suit (or Space suit as we call it;) and took all us kiddo's down to look inside the hive to see if the Queen was there!!

smoking the hive!Charlie was a brave one! He let the bees crawl all over him and they never stung him! the little creatures

A mishapped comb

I'd hate for them to angry;)

Well, Charlie and Kate are home for the weekend!! They've been in Bremen working for our Cousin.

OH! And it's Alan's and Carlos' birthdays today!! Happy birthday brother and nephew!! Love y'all!!

Beth

We have Bees!!

Last week Daddy went and got our Bees!! We are all so excited!! Can you imagine?! Our own honey!! He bought about 3000 bees and a Queen to start our first hive!!

There are so many of them! Daddy said that in a healthy hive there are usually 30,000!! Wow, our little bees better start reproducing!!LOL! All our equipment My new French hat;)

"Beth, I think these are a bit big!"

Can any one guess which Smithie Kid these eye's belong too?

Daddy dearest, the Bee keeper!!

Our "Ba-Zoo" trip

Last week while we had Bret and Ronald Mama decided to take us to Noah's Ark for a picnic lunch and a stroll around! Noah's Ark is a donation run shelter for animal's. Yuchi heard we were going and decided to inform all the others about it so he said "We're going to the Ba-Zoo!!! We're going to the Ba-Zoo!" What a cutie;) It kinda stuck and even Wallace was calling it that!
Well, we got right in the middle of the park and it started pouring! We thought we'd just wait it out but after getting thoroughly drenched we headed back to the truck! As soon as the rain let up the Antonions and their friends the M.'s showed up! What fun! We decided to try another walk around. We got a bit further this time when it started raining again! Ah! Completely soaked and a bit annoyed we just went home after that;)
All us kiddos before our first wetting Brety Running to catch up with 'Yeta'!

The Emu's

Hmmm;)

Maudi and her sweet companionThe buffalo, or bison. I'm not sure which? Or are buffalo and bison the same thing? I really don't know;)

My Cutie Bros

Maud and her Peacock feather she found

Waiting for the rain to stop the first time!With the A's and M's looking at....The Alligator!

A very friendly deer

The Bear was as far as we made it. Oh well, twas very fun! Thank you Mumsie for taking us! Hopefully next time we can go on a bit further;)

Have a Blessed day!

Dios te bendiga,

Bethany

Indian Springs

Last Wednesday we went over to Indian Springs for the afternoon!! It was so fun! We played in the rocks for a bit then ate lunch on the lawn under a beautiful shade tree! Then we went over to the beach. It was quite overcrowded though and filled with smoke, so while the kiddo's swam and I went over to a cute little pavilion in the woods and played cards;)
Ahhh, how peaceful it was! Unfortunately I only have pictures up till lunch, I guess after then I was either to lazy or to tired to take any more!!
Hope y'all enjoy 'em!!

The boys working on their sun tans;)

Water....(how original right? I guess I could say 'Beautiful water' or 'gushing water' or something more dreamy but I'm not feeling very creative right now!!)
Madek's going down the 'Slide'

While looking for a place to eat lunch us girlies stumbled across some very pretty flowers and bushes with a cute little bench in the midst! We got a few pictures but decided to come back later for a photo shoot when we'd put back on our normal clothes;) well, let's just say, never put off what can be done right now! We forgot later so these three photos will have to do;)

Dear Maud and the beautiful flower that we found out later we weren't supposed to pick;)

Some Smithy Ham shots

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

Psalms 42:1

Dios te bendiga!!!

Bethany